Coppergate Memories

Coppergate Memories

Between 1976 and 1981, hundreds of amateur and professional archaeologists worked on the Coppergate Dig and more than a million people came to see the excavation for themselves. This project is aiming to record the memories of this extensive community, including those of some of the leading figures in the dig such as Dr Peter Addyman, Director of York Archaeological Trust as the time. Together, with re-digitised photographs and video footage, they are being used to bring the excitement of the dig to life for future generations.

As part of the project, the Community team at JORVIK Viking Centre is undertaking an initiative calling on all of the archaeologists who helped out on the dig as well as the people who came to see it to submit their memories, in order to collate a permanent record of the 1970s origins of the Viking Centre.

Material gathered for the Coppergate Memories oral history project is now embedded within new AV shows at JORVIK and can be viewed and listened to below.

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